Are major religions just a way of keeping the plebians in line?

[MR END]

It's getting pretty easy for me to believe that any "gods" out there are only those created by us; more specifically, our predecessors whom with no authority but thier own needed some other "force" much greater than thier own to be the talking head for thier rules.

It is pretty easy for the common man to question someone who is flesh and blood himself, but what man would question a Being so powerful that it would know all, all the time, everywhere; who had also been here since the start of Time itself, thereby inferring a vast storage of knowledge and wisdom, whom is known for Great fits of rage?

Are the religions of the world just a rather archaic way of keeping the masses at the masters feet?

If so, what will be the next way of keeping the masses there?

Drugs? A Global network of electromagnetic transmitters? Mass media just blatently brainwashing them? Something else?

Are those methods already being used, if not in full effect, maybe just partialy, slowly replacing the older antiquated way (religion) of doing it?

[The Crusader]

Your argument rings true up until the last couple of decades in which certainly in Europe, organised religion has lost its immense power and influence to the mass media.

Today in Britain, being an avid Christian is just one of many credo's to chose from. And in a cynical society such as ours, being a Christian means jack shit.

[Metal_Demon]

Religions were written/spoken/passed on in order for people with no scientific knowlege to have a view on how the world came to be. They were also partly written to try and control a society through the morals they engraved. (Example: Sure, you can kill someone and go to jail, then die. BUT, the idea of some religions is that if you kill someone you will burn in hell for eternity. Won't that make you think twice?)

That's all it is. Old science. And social control.

As it stands right now, a primitive science such as religion should have been abandoned a long time ago, as well as the primitive morals it ingrained in our societies.

[This message has been edited by Metal_Demon (edited 04-06-2004).]

yes. yes it is.

think for yourself. its ok to be "spiritual" or whatever. im very...ummm...extra...earth...believing...

yeah but religion is for suckers, its ok to believe in stuff, angels, magick, jesus, satan, god, yourself, but once you join an organized religion they pretty much own you.

i used to be a massive anarchist (now i relized leadership is important but oppressive goverment is evil. now im just anti-goverment...i guess anarchist still) until i relized how much religion controls people. and the funny thing is since people do it more or less out of thier own free will, unlike goverment, which is everywhere you go, yeah since its out of your free will they can be way more controlling than goverment because you think its right.

christianity truely is just a popular cult.

[BongTech101]

Indeed. Have agreed with the points of all the posts so far....

Am from UK but have been in the US for a few years and the hold, sway and power that religion can exert in this country (as a supposedly advanced country) is quite worrying.

[ilbastardoh]

Cults kill, religion, umm kills too, umm no umm they're both cults.